More Drives.......

monowar · 07-30-2002, 03:34 AM

Hi,
I have 3 hard-disks and 2 cdrom drives. But in bios there are support for only four drives. So, In this situation what can I do please help me. Thanks.

acid_kewpie · 07-30-2002, 03:36 AM

buy a pci ide controller card

Mara · 07-30-2002, 06:37 AM

There are some mobs that can support more, but they need a BIOS upgrade. Read in your mobo manula, maybe yours is one of them?

monowar · 07-30-2002, 08:11 AM

HI,
Is there any other option.

acid_kewpie · 07-30-2002, 08:15 AM

well what other option could there be? you can't connect them all at once if there aren't enough sockets... you expect to be able to just tape two drive together or something???

MasterC · 07-30-2002, 11:28 AM

Yeah, there really isn't much more. You could connect 1 via a removable hard drive case, and then switch back and forth between the 2 hard drives. Example:
Primary IDE on ide to an internal hard drive (master), and to a removable hard drive case with 2 removable trays with your 2 other hd's strapped into removable cases. Then swap back and forth depending on your needs and such. Secondary, the 2 CDROM's.

Cool

Thymox · 07-30-2002, 05:19 PM

Or, you could ditch one of the CDrom drives. If one is a burner, then you dont really need the other one... unless the other one is a DVD?

neo77777 · 07-30-2002, 05:32 PM

Or you can ditch both CD-ROM and CD-R/RW and get yourself DVD+RW - it'll cost you much more then a PCI card